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President Donald Trump told the nation that he was tested for coronavirus Friday evening, but claimed that he would not receive test results for "a day, or two days."
Virologist and epidemiologist Joseph Fair told MSNBC anchor Alex Witt that the results should already be known.
“Yeah, I mean, typically a test like this, what we call a RTP-CR [reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction] takes around two hours completely,” Fair explained. “And I would think if the president was tested, it would be a two-hour turn around on the assay.”
The internet also doubted Trump's claim that the results were not known, and wondered if there would ever be an honest answer from the White House.
Here's some of what people were saying:
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